storm force strength. you can see just to the exterior of the storm we had 17-mile-per-hour winds and the wind speed now being clocked at 60. we re likely to get this as a tropical storm very soon. we re waiting on the advisories. once we have that we will be able to get a much better picture. this is the current spaghetti model plot. we call it that because the lines look like spaghetti. they actually indicate quite a divergence and where some models are taking the storm, westward to texas or to the eastward into florida. it s really interesting. you don t even see anymore that are going straight to the north. they re going one way or the other depending on whether the storm will get picked up by a trough to the north and steered in that direction. all indications are that s likely what will happen because you can see a lot of strong winds right now are to the north and east of where the storm is located. we re already getting stronger winds in the new orleans area. heavy ra